Old Dovorians
Notable alumni, in chronological order, include:
- Dr Reginald Koettlitz (1860–1916); Doctor and Polar Explorer
- Richard Arthur (1865–1932); Australian politician
- Frederic Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham (1866–1958); Lord Chancellor
- Tyrone Power, Sr. (1869–1931); Anglo-American actor
- O. B. Clarence (1870–1955); English actor
- Edmund Henry Elwin (1871–1909); Christian Missionary and Bishop of Sierra Leone
- Francis Newton Parsons (1875–1900); Victoria Cross recipient (Second Boer War)
- Richard Reginald Goulden (1876-19320); portrait sculptor & creator of public memorials
- Robert John Tillyard (1881–1937); entomologist and geologist
- H. P. M. Beames (1875–1948); engineer
- Adrian Stoop (1883–1957); Rugby player after whom the Stoop Memorial ground is named
- Arthur Leyland Harrison (1886–1918); Victoria Cross recipient (Zeebrugge Raid.)
- The Most Reverend Howard West Kilvinton Mowll D.D. (1890–1958); Archbishop of Sydney and Primate of Australia
- Richard Aldington (1892–1962); writer and poet
- Wilfred Nevill (1894–1916); led the East Surrey’s “Football Charge” at the Somme
- General Sir Dallas Brooks (1896–1966); DSO - Zeebrugge Raid; Governor of Victoria - 1949-1963
- Air Marshal Sir Hugh Walmsley KCB, KCIE, CBE, MC, DFC (1898–1985); Chief of the Air Staff (India)
- Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald (1900–1981); writer of books about British wildlife
- Sir Frederick Ashton OM, CH, CBE (1904–1988); choreographer of the Royal Ballet
- Erik Chitty (1907–1977); actor and founding member of the Cambridge University Mummers
- Edgar Christian (1908–1927); see Cold Burial published in 2002
- Group Captain John Hamar "Johnnie" Hill CBE (1912–1997); Squadron Commander of 504 Squadron and 222 Squadron RAF in 1940
- Squadron Leader Michael Casano MC (1913–2006); Commander of No 2 Armoured Car Company RAF
- Colonel Terence Otway DSO (1914–2006); CO of 9 Para on D-Day (Merville Battery)
- J. Lee Thompson (1914–2002); film director
- Sir Derek Palmar (1919–2006); chairman of Bass Brewery
- Admiral Sir Peter White GBE (1919–2010); Chief of Fleet Support
- Sir Donald Luddington KBE, CMG, CVO (1920–2009); British colonial government official
- The Reverend Mark Turnham Elvins, OFMCap (b. 1939); acting Warden of Greyfriars, Oxford 2007/8
- Michael Welsh (b. 1942); Conservative politician
- George Lam (b. 1947); Hong Kong film star and singer
- Sir Peter Torry, GCVO, KCMG (b. 1948); British Ambassador to Germany
- Michael Kuhn (b. 1949); film director
- Guy East (b. 1951); film producer
- Simon Cowell (b. 1959); TV personality
- Achim Steiner (b. 1961); executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme
- Dai Fujikura (b. 1977); composer of contemporary classical music
- Sammy Moore (b. 1987); professional footballer
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